In 2024, the main focus of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance is on reimbursement and education. Efforts are being made to standardize reimbursement processes and increase awareness among providers and patients.
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Did you know that Belgium has had an idea for classifying and validating digital therapeutics since 2018? A clear framework was formed with all main stakeholders involved - from health insurance to the industry. So why are we not hearing more about DTx in Belgium?
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Many people have issues with sleeping: either not sleeping enough or sleeping poorly. How are digital therapeutics approaching the problem?
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Is it time to stop talking about digital health and just focus on health? Where, in which department, do digital health innovations fit within Pharma? Do we expect too much in terms of the speed of digital health innovation in Pharma?
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It’s been quite a while since we started talking about Clubhouse in the past tense. But last year, it was THE platform to join.
Some people got more from it than others. Medical doctors Diana Van Stijn and Jhonathan Bringas, a married couple from the Netherlands made a mark in the digital health community in the Digital Health Channel, which was founded by Bringas and healthcare expert Amit Goldman. The Channel has 6400 members today.
Music can change our mood, energize us, make us feel invincible. It goes beyond that: it can heal. MedRythms is a digital therapeutics company that received a Breakthrough Device designation from the FDA for its patented digital therapeutic that treats chronic stroke walking deficits.
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Virtual reality can have a literally healing effect. Over 5000 studies by today have shown the efficacy of VR for pain management, PTSD, eating disorders, mental health, even helping manage pain during childbirth. The FDA provided a special designation for virtual reality as a breakthrough device for managing pain.
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Wellthy is one of Asia's leading digital therapeutics companies that inspires and enables patients to prevent, reverse and control chronic diseases. It works with pharmaceutical, medical devices companies, payors and healthcare providers to improve health outcomes. With active therapeutic areas in diabetes and cardiology, it has published real-world evidence across 20 publications in leading peer-reviewed journals and global conferences.
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Kaia Health is a digital therapeutics company offering a solution for mitigating musculoskeletal diseases such as chronic back pain. Kaia Health works by offering the user an AI-supported motion sensor guided exercises, which means that an individual not only tries to follow the video instructions but can get feedback if he is executing the positions correctly or not. The app is additionally supported by an actual coach the user can connect with.
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Australian organization Hello Sunday Morning has been tackling alcohol abuse for over a decade, with a digital approach, that has by today been developed to the level of a soon to be a digital therapeutic (DTx). Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and lock-down across the world, Hello Sunday Morning has been noticing an increase in alcohol consumption.
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“If the Pharma industry doesn’t reinvent itself and its processes, it will become nothing but a supplier to Big Tech, which is rapidly moving into healthcare,” says Paul Simms, CEO and Founder of Eyeforpharma. Paul does believe Pharma companies are putting effort into adopting and helping develop DTx. But as DTx are in their early days of development and adoption, we will see a lot more failures before a universal system will be identified and put in place.
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Digital therapeutics (DTx) are clinically validated digital solutions with proven positive effects on disease management and outcomes. They must undergo a clinical trial to prove their efficacy, however, they are not regulated the same as new medications, says Jessica Schull, European Lead for the Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA), shaping advocacy and organizational engagement for the DTx industry in European countries.
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